One of the challenges facing cloud and digital infrastructure is the widening gap between committed data centre capacity and infrastructure that actually reaches construction or completion. Enterprises that depend on cloud services, colocation providers or use hybrid infrastructure will see the issue’s implications for cost, resilience, deployment timelines, and strategic planning. That’s according to a […]
Google Cloud has agreed to a multiyear security services partnership with Palo Alto Networks as enterprise use of AI in cloud environments grows. A source told Reuters the deal is worth close to $10 billion over its lifetime. The agreement marks Google Cloud’s largest security services deal to date. While financial terms were not disclosed […]
A new multicloud networking service built by Amazon and Google is now available, giving companies a faster way to link the two tech giants’ cloud platforms at a time when even short internet outages can disrupt major online services. The system lets customers set up private, high-speed connections between AWS and Google Cloud in minutes […]
The challenge of running simulation and high-performance workloads efficiently is a constant issue, requiring input from stakeholders including infrastructure teams, cybersecurity professionals, and, of course, ever-watchful finance officers. Running these types of high-compute tasks often involves thousands of concurrent processes and are costly to run on traditional infrastructure. IBM’s latest update to its Cloud Code […]
Huawei’s Shanghai Acoustics R&D Centre is a centre for acoustic engineering excellence, and a demonstration of how cloud computing automotive applications can reshape vehicle technology development. Behind the 43-speaker HUAWEI SOUND ULTIMATE Series is a computational infrastructure that processes massive acoustic datasets, runs simulations, and enables real-time audio processing that would have been impossible a […]
At the Huawei Connect 2025 event in Shanghai last week, Chinese technology Huawei explained its plans for the next generations of its Ascend chip line, and released details on its deployment in pods, and world-leading compute clusters. Speaking at the Huawei Connect conference, deputy chair of Huawei board, Eric Xu, said 2025 had been a […]
Integrated circuit company Montage Technology has launched its CXL 3.1 Memory eXpander Controller (MXC), which is currently being tested by some of its key customers, including AMD and Intel. The controller is compliant with the CXL 3.1 Type 3 specification – the latest version of the CXL interconnect standard – and supports CXL.mem and CXL.io […]
Oracle’s stock jumped in value more than 40% on Wednesday, lifting the company’s share price to a record high and placing the company in striking distance of a trillion-dollar market value. The surge also sent Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison’s wealth soaring, narrowing the gap between him and Elon Musk in the contest to be the […]
Chinese tech firms are trying to raise cash as the fight for market share in AI heats up, and Alibaba is taking the lead. The e-commerce giant is seeking about US$3.17 billion through the sale of zero-coupon convertible notes, a deal set to be the largest of its kind this year. The notes, due in […]
Alibaba says its new low-level software has reduced network outages, lowered load balancing costs, and improved SmartNIC performance by shifting workloads to underused infrastructure. As reported by The Register, the company outlined its results in three research papers it plans to present at the SIGCOMM conference next week. One of the papers introduces a system […]